Meeting low-key law practitioner Arvin Gomez Amatorio for the first time would make one think twice if this guardian of the law is for real. Obviously, aside from being youthful-looking…
LOS ANGELES – Nanxi Liu, Betty Porto and Toni Ko—three women from the technology, food and cosmetics industries, respectively—may not seem like they would have much in common. However, speaking…
LOS ANGELES – The city’s Fashion District was not only hiding the best bargains for clothing and accessories, but also a money laundering scheme linked to international drug cartels. On…
About 98,000 families must verify lawful presence in US before Sept. 30 LOS ANGELES – About 98,000 families are being asked by Covered California to verify their lawful presence here…
At Wilner & O’Reilly, we have come across many heart-warming success stories that give strength to the need for Immigration Reform. Since 2012, there have been some extensive changes in…
The Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) is back in the news. On June 6, 2014, a USCIS policy memorandum was released, expanding the definition for how a CSPA beneficiary could…
ARTESIA – The City of Artesia is set to host its first ever “International Diversity Festival” on October 4, Saturday, on the city’s main thoroughfare, Pioneer Boulevard, between 183rd and…
After promising more “executive action” by the end of September 2014, President Obama caved in to political pressure, and said he would delay taking any further “executive action” until after…
About 98,000 families must verify lawful presence in US before Sept. 30 LOS ANGELES – About 98,000 families are being asked by Covered California to verify their lawful presence here…
SEXY actress Ara Mina is looking forward to being a mother and has set aside being a bride—for now. Pregnant with her first baby by Bulacan Mayor Patrick Meneses and…
Since medical marijuana was legalized in California in 1996 (the latest one, Maryland, in 2014), more deaths have been reported from the use of this substance. Early this month, a…
LOS ANGELES – More than 8 million immigrants living in the United States have green cards and are eligible for citizenship, yet only 8 percent of these become naturalized citizens….
A RARE illness that starts off as the common cold and has already affected more than one thousand children in multiple states is becoming far more serious, doctors say. The…
ELEVEN million undocumented immigrants, including many Filipinos, feel disheartened when the Obama Administration announced that the president would postpone using his executive power to stop deportation until after the 2014…
Often times, we are too lazy to start with the first step; so we tend to give up on something we have been planning, dreaming even, to accomplish. However, as…
SAN FRANCISCO—Members of the Filipino-American community in the South of Market District in San Francisco have banded together to raise money to repatriate the remains of an undocumented Filipino immigrant…
IN the legends I have read thIn the legends I have read that males wrote to explain life, it was said that the first human creature was a man called…
LOS ANGELES – A 65-year-old ex-USC professor pleaded guilty on Friday, September 5 to traveling to the Philippines and sexually assaulting several underage boys between ages 9 and 17. According to…
LOS ANGELES – The Asian Pacific Islander Small Business Program (API SBP) kicked off its first event in preparation for the 15th Annual Asian Small Business Expo happening on Saturday,…
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles City Councilmembers Mike Bonin (CD 11) Mitch O’Farrell (CD 13) introduced a resolution on Tuesday, Sept. 9, which calls on the Federal government to halt…
LOS ANGELES – The Asian Pacific Islander Small Business Program (API SBP) kicked off its first event in preparation for the 15th Annual Asian Small Business Expo happening on Saturday,…
LOS ANGELES – A 65-year-old ex-USC professor pleaded guilty on Friday, September 5 to traveling to the Philippines and sexually assaulting several underage boys between ages 9 and 17. According to…
Pop singer Simone Battle, 25, was found dead in her West Hollywood home on Friday, September 5th. The death was ruled a suicide by hanging, according to a Los Angeles…
Because of the disturbing ascent in the crime rate, over 80 community members, mostly Filipinos, assembled a peace march to suppress the violence in the South of Market neighborhood in…
A large wildfire burning in Yosemite National Park for weeks has prompted the evacuation of more than 100 visitors over the weekend. The so-called “Meadow Fire” has burned at least…
TWENTY seminarians from St. John’s Seminary have started their parish internship this week. They are excited and happy about this new experience. After four years of academic work, the seminary…
NOT a single cent from the proposed Philippine national budget for 2015 was allocated for plebiscites on Charter change (Cha-cha) and the Bangsamoro political entity, the Commission on Elections (Comelec)…
“I DON’T mind them. What’s important to me is my relationship with my family and the Lord,” Manny Pacquiao told Balitang America Las Vegas Correspondent Bev Llorente, when asked about…
“DARING to take the MRT Challenge,” with Sen. Grace Poe, DOTC Secretary Joseph Abaya and Malacañang Deputy Spokesperson Abigail Valte taking the notoriously inefficient public transport system, may have translated…
